New Year, New You!

Hello and happy New Year! I’m sure that as we kick off the year 2010, many of you have been greeted with this phrase, but as you politely return the greeting, I want you to do me a favor and take a moment and ask yourself, “Is this really a new year for me?”. In other words, are you bringing the same old baggage (selfishness, jealousy, envy, fear etc.) from the old year into the New Year? If so, don’t kid yourself, it really isn’t a new year for you at all. In fact, many folks proclaim “A New Year” but truth is, many of us haven’t had a “New Year” in years. The numbers change but there’s a good chance that you, the person, haven’t changed at all. Maybe the problem is, most people really don’t understand what is meant by “New Year” so let us clarify the word new. The word “new” means something that has not existed or hasn’t been seen before. Something recently invented or discovered. A new idea…a new thought.  Bottom line, to have a “New Year” truly means to change. And according to universal law, everything under the sun must change in order to grow. When I think about change, Taco Bell always comes to mind. Here’s a company that been around since 1956 selling tacos (in the beginning they sold hot dogs), every year they find different ways to basically change and reinvent the same taco (hard or soft); now that’s a “New Year”!  They serve 36.8 million consumers each week, and get this, for the “New Year”, Taco Bell is introducing the new Drive-Thru Diet Menu. Wow!! Diet Tacos! Just when you thought you knew the menu, they changed it on ya. I can’t wait to see what they come up with in 2011….energy Tacos?!? Take note from Taco Bell and really make this a “new” year for yourselves. 


"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better." — King Whitney, Jr.

With that said, leave your comments and tell me what’s changed about yourself that will make 2010 truly a New Year.

Later,

The 3^rd eye

Robert